I could not resist the opportunity to call in on the Musée Gustave Moreau, one of the most atmospheric of artist’s houses, piled from floor to ceiling with his works, which are the apotheosis of the late nineteenth-century romantic imagination: floor after floor, three floors in all, with two floors of studio above the minuscule living apartments:-
Downstairs are the private apartments, equally atmospheric:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
What an exceptional set of photographs.
They capture so much of Paris.
That’s such a wonderful spiral staircase. I’d like to visit the museum just to see that!
Charles, in the series “Engrenages” (“Spiral”) on the Beeb, the evil serial killer/pedophile of series 1 always met his accomplice by those stairs
Thank you. Will get Romilly to watch (if she hasn’t already). Charles
Thanks to Cynthia Rose for that information. It’s been greeted in this house with gasps of ‘Oh, yes’. Absolutely love Spiral and are hoping for a new series in the not too distant.